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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 10 Feb 1998.
Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art

Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <34D...@on.spammer>...
>Jorn Barger wrote:
>> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>> > I definitely don't see why it
>> > should be avoided on the internet, since it is "lean" and compatible
>> > even with the oldest/simplest computers.
>>
>> YES!
>>
>> It might be a good time to mention the <PRE><IMG ALT={}></PRE> trick--
>> some browsers will display ascii-art-as-alt okay if it's put there where
>> I have "[]".
>>
>
>Have you seen what the latest version of netscape does to that?!  :(
>
>If I was a newbie and found that sort of thing on a page I would think
>that the author was mad and move out of there quickly...  :(
>
>Here's an example:
>
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/pics/rubbish/alt/
>
>I made this for a similar discussion in another newsgroup and it
>contains two versions of the same situation, the one I used to have on
>one of my pages is duplicated in "pre.html". It is the situation you
>describe. The other example is the way I do it today, with a link from
>the image to the ascii version. That second example is the file called
>"link.html".


The alt= text BLINKS.  OY!!!!

>>BKNambo
--
http://come.to/brocks.place

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Subject: Re: W3C recommends: Avoid ASCII Art
Date: 1998/02/10
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